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Eleftheriou, Joanna

This Way Back

West Virginia University Press, 2020

35,00 €

Kalamos Books

(STREETSVILLE, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
2020
ISBN
9781949199666
Lugar de impresión
Morgantown WV
Autor
Eleftheriou, Joanna
Editores
West Virginia University Press
Materia
CYPRUS MEMOIRS CYPRIOT AMERICAN WRITER
Descripción
S
Descripción
Signed by Author(s)
Sobrecubierta
No
Conservación
Como nuevo
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Copia autógrafa
Primera edición
No

Descripción

This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. The book avows a Greek-Cypriot-American lesbian's existence by documenting its scenes: reenacting an 1829 mass suicide by jumping off a school stage onto gym mats at St. Nicholas, harvesting carobs on ancestral land, purchasing UNESCO-protected lace, marching in the island's first gay pride parade, visiting Cyprus's occupied north against a dying father's wish, and pruning geraniums, cypress trees, and jasmine after her father grew too weak to lift the shears. While the author's life binds the essays into what reads like a memoir, the book questions memoir's conventional boundaries between the individual and her community, and between political and personal loss, the human and the environment, and the living and the dead.